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Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me? by prussia on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:35AM (#39998411)
Well, it's a lot easier to automatically scan and store emails than postcards (eg, flagging all emails with certain keywords or in certain languages)... I guess nowadays they can use OCR to scan postcards, but that would be of doubtful value to any of the 3 letter agencies.
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Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me? by mulmen on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:12AM (#39999635)
The USPS literally scans and stores all mail sent through the USPS.
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Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me? by kayodelycaon on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:08AM (#40003014)
And it's a feature, their Informed Delivery service will send those scans to you in an email.
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Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me? by tristan957 on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:12AM (#40003053)
All they get are equivalent to email headers. They don't know what's in the box or envelope unless you've had to declare it with them for some reason.
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